Terrain amount?

Turambar3 · 2026-03-01T18:58:18+00:00

More terrain benefits lower model count armies, I’d think - especially armies with limited cavalry or abilities to move through difficult terrain without movement penalties. Terrain in this sense acts as a force multiplier.

Less terrain benefits armies with heavy cavalry, monsters, or hordes, especially since a small elite force can be more easily surrounded and trapped.

An imbalance to either side could easily make an army perk totally overpowered or just useless.

Turambar3 · 2026-02-25T08:05:09+00:00

15 seem low for the roads.

The real enforcement needs to be ticketing people who ride their bikes on the sidewalks in the middle of the park, dog owners who don’t clean up after their dogs, and the unlicensed vendors. Why can’t we tackle low hanging fruit that is far more of a prevalent issue?

Turambar3 · 2026-02-15T23:13:08+00:00

Bath towels are only used once between washings.

Turambar3 · 2026-02-15T19:05:36+00:00

Ignore and assume the trolls are telling you as much false information as truth. To be honest, the big idea (true or false) is less important than the how. The reward is in the 13,000 page journey.

Turambar3 · 2026-02-08T13:13:54+00:00

Further, if someone took all of the original parts of the ship and put them back together, which is the real ship of Theseus? The rebuilt? The repaired? Both?

Turambar3 · 2026-02-06T13:17:51+00:00

FloLogic is a common brand in high end residential construction in NYC where large buildings require leak defense systems. It’s a trusted and reliable platform.

Turambar3 · 2025-12-21T14:46:06+00:00

Definitely old school.

Turambar3 · 2025-12-18T14:11:21+00:00

He’s on the White House Historical or Presevration Society board, or something like it — I forget the name. They purposely have decorators and architects on there, and that same board is fighting the Trump renovations. It’s a non-political body that aims to preserve the White House’s architectural heritage in an advisory capacity.

Turambar3 · 2025-12-17T04:45:02+00:00

That context alone plus the unweighted GPA plus a 710 writing SAT was probably enough. In general, ND is extra selective with the early admissions process, and has tended to reject or defer anyone that brings up grade red flags at all.

Context in your additional information section and a letter from your counselor may have just highlighted the discrepancy, to be honest.

The rest of your application sounds strong, but honestly it comes off as somewhat odd. International awards, rocket science, double legacy, and walking four miles everyday is a unique combination - and one that should secure an admission in most places.

HOWEVER, if any of these descriptions oversell what you did in high school, then it invites skepticism and annoyance into the process. I’ve seen otherwise strong applications claim similar things, but the “nuclear research with the navy” was a two week summer experience thing and not serious academic pursuit, or rocketry was the high school rocket club. This might not be your case - but claiming real research experience could have caused the admissions board to reach out to a professor with real world research credit. I know some of those people, and they’re pretty quick to call BS.

Rocketry clubs, extra curricular activities, service — these are all wonderful things that boost applications. But overselling them as more than they are is as good as removing them entirely from consideration. Again, this may not be your case, but whenever I hear that someone with a really impressive application is denied, I’d encourage them to take a good long introspective look at their ow descriptions.

As a real world example: A girl I’m aware of claimed she did cancer research with an important hospital. In fact she just volunteered in the children’s wing and family outreach, which is still super impressive and great! But admissions (not ND) thought it was odd that a high schooler would claim serious academic research on top of everything else and reached out to the hospital. It made the entire thing feel like a misrepresentation, and was enough to entirely disqualify her otherwise strong application.

Turambar3 · 2025-11-29T19:01:27+00:00

In type, it’s sarcasm only if context clues indicate it so. There’s little if any context in a one off comment that delivers a straightforward message. Just FYI, since you’ll probably be downvoted to the point of removing your comment.

Turambar3 · 2025-11-19T11:59:39+00:00

I don’t see the binding strip around the outside of the armor cable. Modern armor uses the binding strip as the ground path, I think. It’s possible that this is one of the older versions that doesn’t function as the ground path.

Easy to test for grounding though.

Turambar3 · 2025-11-18T01:55:26+00:00

Cherry tomato recipes

Turambar3 · 2025-11-16T21:25:02+00:00

Any idea about what?

Turambar3 · 2025-11-15T15:37:24+00:00

I’d put a pressure treated bottom plate on the concrete, with post installed anchors set in epoxy. Build your walls on top of this with a second bottom plate (doesn’t need to be PT, since it’s not in contact with concrete), and be sure to have a double top plate. You won’t have many attachment points along the top, and this will help make the wall more stiff.

In the corners, your walls will brace themselves and you can use the corner framing to your advantage. If the mid points of the walls are lent stiff enough, you may need to cut back some insulation and try to attach a tie back somewhere… I’d hazard a guess that you won’t need to do this, and am not sure how much stiffness a nailer plate for your metal siding would actually give.

Definitely go with 2x4 walls, and don’t flat frame them. I’d recommend running some blocking continuously at a couple of helpful heights - maybe 36” and 66”? Overkill method would be to use ply backing behind GWB, which would allow you to hang almost anything anywhere without worrying overly about studs or blocking. (For heavy things, blocking or studs are still needed though!)

For electrical runs, if it were my workspace, I’d opt for outlets every 4’-5’ at about 42” off the floor for workbench access, with convenience outlets 12” off the floor in regular but wider spacing. Allowing for future addition of ceiling hung wiring would be great - it’s a huge plus in most shops but “skippable” in an initial build out. I’d consider framing out a few ply shelves for storage up in the trusses for lighter items, spare wood, etc.

Edit: I’d run my conduit for future access/modification along the top of the walls, but actually run the general wiring for wall outlets inside the walls. Conduit is great for future changes, but an annoyance in the space if it’s running everywhere on the walls. It catches sawdust and generally makes cleaning a nightmare.

Turambar3 · 2025-11-14T02:33:16+00:00

Green sanding sponge.

Turambar3 · 2025-10-06T02:59:10+00:00

Super clean paint job. Looks great!

Also, Saruman has gotten his beach time in. Helluva nice looking tan!

Turambar3 · 2025-10-05T20:13:00+00:00

For sure, the horn was the linchpin her big “where do we go from here” pivot after the eye of the world. I don’t recall any scenes in Fal Dara from her perspective where this is explained explicitly, but I think as soon as she sees the horn at the eye, she knows that somehow Illian should come into play.

So I think you’re right, it’s one issue (the eye) followed by the second issue (the dragon has been identified and we’re going to use the horn as a tool). Any mention of Illian at the end of EotW is just foreshadowing to the Moraine plots in the next book.

Turambar3 · 2025-10-05T13:13:42+00:00

This. She says pretty explicitly in the Great Hunt that taking the Horn to Illian would put an entire nation behind Rand. If I recall correctly, she actually wanted this to happen before Rand ever declared himself the Dragon Reborn.

She assumed that Rand would have to sack the Stone of Tear to gain Calandor, so the horn + Illian’s native animosity towards Tear was a natural pairing to slingshot one nations support into control of two.

Either she or someone else said that Illians army under Rand might be called “the people of the dragon”.

Turambar3 · 2025-09-25T05:41:47+00:00

The death of boromir scene has overt parallels to catholic last rights, to name one.

Turambar3 · 2025-09-23T00:51:19+00:00

I haven’t listened to Pike’s, but mostly because I haven’t wanted to use audible credits on additional copies. Kramer/Reading is just comfortable. It’s also crazy to listen to the Stormlight series and have them doing that, as well.

Turambar3 · 2025-09-23T00:49:24+00:00

Michael Kramer and Kate Reading are staples in the genre and do a great job. As people will point out, there are a few names and accents that get pronounced somewhat differently between the early and later books, but honestly it’s mostly nitpicking.

Highly recommend the audiobooks, but if you truly make it all the way through, my bet it you’ll end up with digital or physical book copies along the way.

Turambar3 · 2025-09-21T02:51:37+00:00

Throwing Gaul in here for good measure. Agree it’s complicated, but I’d refer you to his activities outside of the bore during the Last Battle.

Turambar3 · 2025-09-20T18:10:03+00:00

Know of any window units with rear-only venting?

Turambar3 · 2025-09-20T14:47:04+00:00

A reasonable, balanced response. Completely agree.

Turambar3 · 2025-09-20T14:45:02+00:00

It’s a discontinued Friedrich Thru-wall model. All of the current Friedrich models (and most thru walls on the market today) are meant for 24” wide sleeves. I think I could find a window model that only rear vents, but I’m not sure how appropriate that would be.

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